Solid-state disks are currently based on NAND flash and expose a standard disk interface. To accommodate limitations of the medium, solid-state disk implementations avoid rewritin...
Big data is the tar sands of the data world: vast reserves of raw gritty data whose valuable information content can only be extracted at great cost. MapReduce is a popular parall...
Asynchronous IO (AIO) allows a process to continue to do other work while an IO operation initiated earlier completes. AIO allows a large number of random IO operations to be issu...
Suresh Iyengar, S. Sudarshan, Santosh Kumar 0002, ...
Abstract— As the datasets used to fuel modern scientific discovery grow increasingly large, they become increasingly difficult to manage using conventional software. Parallel d...
Sarah Loebman, Dylan Nunley, YongChul Kwon, Bill H...
Spatial Joins are important and time consuming operations in spatial database management systems. It is crucial to be able to accurately estimate the performance of these operatio...